Word: addictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...return, a new life to begin or an old one to end, for love to be reborn. The time is 1972, and a crisis has brought Zoe to her Wisconsin hometown. Avoiding the draft, her brother had fled to Canada; now he is a drug addict in a local mental hospital. Through him Zoe reawakens from the arid existence of the once loved; recapturing a tender moment they shared as children brings redemption. She learns that "love isn't something you wait for. It's something you do." The novel has echoes of faddish self-help themes, but by interweaving...
...reading The Thirsty Muse, the reader never doubts that the writers became powerless in the face of alcohol. Dardis writes that only O'Neill escaped its trap. But O'Neill merely traded addictions--he died a drug addict. Dardis does not even begin to explain what caused the author to fall prey to another addiction...
CONFESSION. A CHRONICLE OF ALIENATION. A shocking and realistic documentary by director Georgi Gavrilov about a young high school dropout and drug addict, the grandson of a labor-camp officer, who searches for identity in an apathetic society...
Boggs' life became entangled in a saga of sex and jealousy, and to find a perspective, he tuned into Geraldo Rivera. In a 60-minute Rivera show about sex addiction, Boggs realized his problem--he was a sex addict--and that he's not alone...
...troublemakers en masse, chaining the school's doors to bar drug dealers and -- whooping audience delight here -- inveighing colorfully against laziness, incompetence and any politician or community leader who questioned his ways. But underneath all that, as the movie points out, were sweetness and caring: Clark redeeming a crack addict (Jermaine Hopkins), mending a mother-daughter conflict, nursing a comic obsession with getting the kids to sing the school song with gusto...